Supreme Commander Forged Alliance - Hamachi

[Destroid]

Title says it - anyone interested in some FA over Hamachi? I'm on semester break now so I'm up for pretty much any time or player configuration and could bring a pal or two for 2v2/3v3 between 0900 and 1300GMT.

I've only played 5 or so 1v1 games so far, so I guess I suck. Live in aus so I'd guess my ping will be horrible to 90% of you

 

[TheWesDude]

i tried playing against other players, but i usually end up losing in 5 mins or less, one time i managed to live almost 10 mins before dying.

so i dont play online anymore. only vs AI

 

[Destroid]

Playing vs ai is so horrible in this game, you have the absurdly easy regular AI or the insanely difficult cheating AI. It's really annoying.

 

[TheWesDude]

have you tried some of the custom AI packages like sorian and such?

 

[Destroid]

Nope, but I've read that they can slow down the game quite a lot, which already gives me problems on the larger maps.

 

[TheWesDude]

well, yea...

1v1 me vs sorian, its not too bad, but usually by the 45m mark i have 2-3 IRL sec per in-game seconds...

when i try to up it to me+sorian vs 2 sorian...

by 30m its usually 4-6 IRL sec per in-game sec

GPG really fucked up their threading and load balancing.

 

[Destroid]

Just gave it a crack, 2v2 on a 10km land map with 3 rush AIs. Myself and my ally easily rolled the opposition.

Will be nice to actually have some naval battles with the AI and I noticed the behavoir was leagues ahead of default.

 

[TheWesDude]

i play either 80, 40, or setons maps

 

[Destroid]

I find playing the larger maps tedious - it also really makes air power so much more relevent than everything else. I can't imagine myself playing on anything bigger than a 20x20.

 

[TheWesDude]

im a turtling fan, so i need the larger maps to have enough time before the AI starts hitting me to get working defenses up